semi-civilization

In a pitiless semi-civilization, one single act of decency launches a young man on a terrifying journey.

Darkness Too Visible Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

Moreover, I was returning after a taste of bush life, not to my eyrie in São Paulo, but to the cab shafts of semi-civilization in

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Far to the east the Lemurians are evolving a strange semi-civilization of their own.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

According to the tales, it went back to Cataclysmic times, when the forebears of the Zamorians, the Zhemri, formed an island of semi-civilization in a sea of barbarism.

Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

Far to the east the Lemurians are evolving a strange semi-civilization of their own.

Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

The idea that man is in any way the cause of his own acts has nearly ceased to exist, and Fatalism, the normal belief of the Arabs in their state of semi-civilization before Mohammed, is the controlling force in the speculations and practices of the Moslem world.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

To the first of these volumes, published in 1845, Mr. Gallatin contributed an "Essay on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico and Central America, embracing elaborate notes on their languages, numeration, calendars, history, and chronology, and an inquiry into the probable origin of their semi-civilization."

Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

This consisted of geographical notices, an account of Indian means of subsistence, the ancient semi-civilization of the

Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

After centuries of internal war, they have now settled into a state of semi-civilization, in which they are accustomed to barter with whalers, with exploring parties, and with the Government agents of Russia, and they are hospitably inclined by that intercourse.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

The latter, who were never to be trusted, only feigned semi-civilization, and unexpectedly renewing the war, they fell upon their old enemies, the Hurons, with diabolical fury.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger